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A01001	The wonderful discouerie of the vvitchcrafts of Margaret and Phillip Flower, daughters of Ioan Flower neere Beuer Castle: executed at Lincolne, March 11. 1618 Who were specially arraigned and condemned before Sir Henry Hobart, and Sir Edward Bromley, iudges of assise, for confessing themselues actors in the destruction of Henry L. Rosse, with their damnable practises against others the children of the Right Honourable Francis Earle of Rutland. Together with the seuerall examinations and confessions of Anne Baker, Ioan Willimot, and Ellen Greene, witches in Leicestershire.		1619 (1619)	STC 11107; ESTC S102363	15,152	48

demanded the cause of this their mallice and ill will shee saith that about foure yeares since the Countesse growing into some mislike with her gaue her forty shillings a bolster a mattresse and bad her lye at home and come no more to dwell at the Castle which she not onely tooke in ill part but grudged at it exceedingly swearing in her heart to be reuenged After this her Mother complained to the Earle against one Peake who had offered her some wrong wherein she conceiued that the Earle tooke not her part as shee expected which dislike with the rest exasperated her displeasure against him and so she watched an opportunity to bee reuenged wherevpon she tooke wooll out of the said mattresse and a paire of gloues which were giuen her by M r. Vauasor and put them into warme water mingling them with some blood and stirring it together then she tooke the wooll and gloues out of the water and rubd them on the belly of Rutterkin her Cat saying the Lord and the Lady should haue more Children but it would be long first Shee further confesseth that by her mothers commandement shee brought to her a peece of a handkercher of the Lady Katherine the Earles daughter and her mother put it into hot water then taking it out rubd it on Rutterkin bidding him flye and go wherevpon Rutterkin whined and cryed Mew whereupon shee said that Rutterkin had no power ouer the Lady Katherine to hurt her The Examination of Phillip Flower the 25. of February 1618. before Francis Earle of Rutland Francis Lord Willoughby of Ersby S r. George Manners and S r. William Pelham SHee confesseth and saith that shee hath a Spirit sucking on her in the forme of a white Rat which keepeth her left breast and hath so done for three or foure yeares and concerning the agreement betwixt her Spirit and her selfe she confesseth and saith that when it came first vnto her shee gaue her Soule to it and it promised to doe her good and cause Thomas Simpson to loue her if shee would suffer it to sucke her which shee agreed vnto and so the last time it suckt was on Tuesday at night the 23. of February The Examination of Margaret Flower at the same time c. SHee confesseth that she hath two familiar Spirits sucking on her the one white the other black spotted the white sucked vnder her left brest and the blacke spotted within the inward parts of her secrets When shee first entertained them she promised them her soule and they couenanted to doe all things which she commanded them c. Shee further saith that about the 30. of Ianuary last past being Saturday foure Diuells appeared vnto her in Lincolne layle at eleauen or twelue a clocke at midnight The one stood at her beds feete with a blacke head like an Ape and spake vnto her but what shee cannot well remember at which shee was very angry because hee would speake no plainer or let her vnderstand his meaning the other three were Rutterkin Little Robin and Spirit but shee neuer mistrusted them nor suspected her selfe till then There is another Examination of the said Margaret Flower taken the fourth of February 1618. tending to this effect THat being asked what shee knoweth concerning the bewitching of the Earle of Rutland his wife and children shee saith that it is true that her selfe her mother and sister were all displeased with him especially with the Countesse for turning her out of seruice wherevppon some foure yeare since her mother commanded her to goe vp to the Castle and bring her the right hand gloue of the Lord Henry Rosse the Earles eldest sonne which gloue she found on the rushes in the Nurcery and deliuered the same to her Mother who put it into hot water prickt it often with her knife then tooke it out of the water and rubd it vppon Rutterkin bidding him height and goe and doe some hurt to Henry Lord Rosse wherevpon hee fell sicke and shortly after dyed which her Mother hearing of said it was well but after shee had rubd the gloue on the Spirit Rutterkin shee threw it into the fire and burnt it c. THese Examinations and some others were taken and charily preserued for the contriuing of sufficient euidences against them and when the Iudges of Assise came downe to Lincolne about the first weeke of March being S r. Henry Hobert Lord chiefe Iustice of the Common Pleas and S r. Ed Bromley one of the Barons of the Exchequer they were presented vnto them who not only wondred at the wickednesse of these persons but were amazed at their practises and horrible contracts with the Diuel to damne their own soules And although the Right Honorable Earle had sufficient griefe for the losse of his Children yet no doubt it was the greater to consider the manner and how it pleased God to inflict on him such a fashion of visitation Besides as it amazed the hearers to vnderstand the particulars and the circumstances of this diuellish contract so was it as wonderfull to see their desperate impenitency and horrible distraction according to the rest of that sort exclaiming against the Diuell for deluding them and now breaking promise with them when they stood in most need of his helpe Notwithstanding all these aggrauations such was the vnparalleld magnanimity wisedome and patience of this generous Noble-man that hee vrged nothing against them more then their owne confessions and so quietly left them to iudiciall triall desiring of God mercy for their soules and of men charity to censure them in their condemnation but God is not mocked and so gaue them ouer to iudgement nor man so reformed but for the Earles sake they cursed them to that place which they themselues long before had bargained for What now remaines gentle Reader but for thee to make vse of so wonderfull a Story and remarkable an accident out of which to draw to a conclusion thou maist collect these particulars First that God is the supreame commander of all things and permitteth wonderfull actions in the World for the tryall of the godly the punishment of the wicked and his owne glory of which man shall neuer attaine to know the reason or occasion Secondly that the Diuell is the meere seruant and agent of God to prosecute whatsoeuer hee shall command rather then giue leaue vnto limiting him yet thus farre in his owne nature that he can go no further then the bounds within which hee is hedged Thirdly that this God hath punishments ad correctionem that is to say chasticements of the godly ad rui●●m Videlicet Iudgements against the wicked wherein yet man must disclaime any knowledge and forsake preiudicate opinions For the very iust shall be tried like gold and no man exempted from castigation whom God doth loue Fourthly that this Diuell though he bee Gods Instrument yet worketh altogether by deceit for as hee was a lyer from the beginning so let no man trust him because he aymeth at the confusion of all Mankinde Fiftly that the wicked howeuer they may thriue and prosper for a time yet in the end are sure to be payed home either with punishment in this life or in the life to come or both as a finall reward of monstrous impiety Sixtly that Man in his frailty must not presume of prosperity but prepare a kinde of stooping vnder the hand of God when it pleaseth him to strike or punish vs. Seauenthly that there is no murmuring nor repining against God but quietly to tolerate his inflictings whensoeuer they chance of which this worthy Earle is a memorable example to all men and Ages Eightly that the punishments of the wicked are so many warnings to all irregular sinners to amend their liues and auoid the iudgement to come by penitency and newnesse of life Ninthly that though man could bee content to passe ouer blasphemies and offences against the Statutes of Princes yet God will ouertake them in their own walks and pull them backe by the sleeue into a slaughter-house as here you know the euidences against these people tooke life and power from their owne Confessions Tenthly and last of all that priuate opinion cannot preuaile against publique censures for here you see the learned and religious Iudges cryed out with our Sauiour Ex ore tuo Therefore though it were so that neither Witch nor Diuell could doe these things yet Let not a Witch liue saith God and Let them dye saith the Law of England that haue conuersation with spirits and presume to blaspheme the name of God with spels and incantation O then you sonnes of men take warning by these examples and eyther diuert your steps from the broad way of destruction and inrecouerable gulph of damnation or with Iosuahs counsell to Achan blesse God for the discouery of wickednesse and take thy death patiently as the preuention of thy future iudgement and sauing innocents from punishment who otherwise may be suspected without a cause Vtinam tam facile vera inuenire possem quam falsa conuincere FINIS

liking and good entertainment on euery side vntill the Earle by degrees conceiued some mislike against her and so peraduenture estranged himselfe from that familiaritie and accustomed conferrences hee was wont to haue with her vntill one Peate offered her some wrong against whom shee complained but found that my Lord did not affect her clamours and malicious information vntill one M r. Vauasor abandoned her company as either suspicious of her lewd life or distasted with his owne misliking of such base and poore Creatures whom no body loued but the Earles houshold vntill the Countesse misconceiuing of her daughter Margaret and discouering some vndecencies both in her life and neglect of her businesse discharged her from lying any more in the Castle yet gaue her 40. s. a bolster a mattresse of wooll commanding her to go home vntil the slacknesse of her repayring to the Castle as shee was wont did turne her loue and liking toward this honourable Earle and his family into hate and rancor wherevpon despighted to bee so neglected and exprobrated by her neighbours for her Daughters casting out of dores and other conceiued displeasures she grew past all shame and Woman-hood and many times cursed them all that were the cause of this discontentment and made her so loathsome to her former familiar friends and beneficiall acquaintance When the Diuell perceiued the inficious disposition of this wretch and that she and her Daughters might easily bee made instruments to enlarge his Kingdome and bee as it were the executioners of his vengeance not caring whether it lighted vpon innocents or no he came more neerer vnto them and in plaine tearmes to come quickly to the purpose offered them his seruice and that in such a manner as they might easily command what they pleased For hee would attend you in such prety formes of dog cat or Rat that they should neither be terrified nor any body else suspicious of the matter Vpon this they agree and as it should seeme giue away their soules for the seruice of such spirits as he had promised them which filthy conditions were ratified with abhominable kisses and an odious sacrifice of blood not leauing out certaine charmes and coniurations with which the Diuell deceiued them as though nothing could bee done without ceremony and a solemnity of orderly ratification By this time doth Sathan triumph and goeth away satisfied to haue caught such fish in the net of his illusions By this time are these women Diuels incarnate and grow proud againe in their cunning and artificiall power to doe what mischiefe they listed By this time they haue learnt the manner of inchantations Spells and Charmes By this time they kill what Cattle they list and vnder the couert of flattery and familiar entertainment keepe hidden the stinging serpent of mallice and a venomous inclination to mischiefe By this time is the Earle and his familie threatened and must feele the burthen of a terrible tempest which from these womens Diuellish deuises fell vppon him hee neither suspecting nor vnderstanding the same By this time both himselfe and his honourable Countesse are many times subiect to sicknesse and extraordinary conuulsions which they taking as gentle corrections from the hand of God submit with quietnesse to his mercy and study nothing more then to glorifie their Creator in heauen and beare his crosses on earth At last as mallice increased in these damnable Women so his family felt the smart of their reuenge and inficious disposition For his eldest Sonne Henry Lord Rosse sickened very strangely and after a while died his next named Francis Lord Rosse accordingly was seuerely tormented by them and most barbarously and inhumanely tortured by a strange sicknesse not long after the Lady Katherine was set vpon by their dangerous and diuellish practises and many times in great danger of life through extreame maladies and vnusuall fits nay as it should seeme and they afterwards confessed both the Earle and his Countesse were brought into their snares as they imagined and indeed determined to keepe them from hauing any more children Oh vnheard of wickednesse and mischieuous damnation Notwithstanding all this did the noble Earle attend his Maiesty both at New-market before Christmas and at Christmas at Whitehall bearing the losse of his Children most nobly and little suspecting that they had miscarried by Witch-craft or such like inuentions of the Diuell vntill it pleased God to discouer the villanous practises of these Woemen and to command the Diuell from executing any further vengeance on innocents but leaue them to their shames and the handes of Iustice that they might not onely be confounded for their villanous practises but remaine as a notorious example to all ages of his iudgement and fury Thus were they apprehended about Christmas and carried to Lincolne Iayle after due examination before sufficient Iustices of the Peace and discreete Maiestrates who wondred at their audacious wickednes but Ioane Flow●r the Mother before conuiction as they say called for Bread and Butter and wished it might neuer goe through her if she were guilty of that wherevpon shee was examined so mumbling it in her mouth neuer spake more wordes after but fell downe and dyed as shee was carryed to Lincolne Goale with a horrible excruciation of soule and body and was buried at Ancaster When the Earle heard of their apprehension hee hasted downe with his brother S r. George and somtimes examining them himselfe and sometimes sending them to others at last left them to the triall of Law before the Iudges of assise at Lincolne and so they were conuicted of murther and executed accordingly about the 11. of March to the terror of all the beholders and example of such dissolute and abhominable Creatures and because you shall haue both cause to glorifie God for this discouery and occasion to apprehend the strangenesse of their liues and truth of their proceedings I thought it both meete and conuenient to lay open their own Examinations and Euidences against one another with such apparrant circumstances as doe not onely shew the cause of their mislike and distasting against the Earle and his family but the manner of their proceedings and reuenges with other particulars belonging to the true and plaine discouery of their villany and Witch-craft The Examinations of Anne Baker Ioane Willimot and Ellen Greene as followeth c. Anne Baker Ioane Willimot Ellen Greene. THE EXAMINATION of Anne Baker of Bottesford in the County of Leicester Spinster taken March 1. 1618. by the Right Honourable Francis Earle of Rutland Sir George Manners Knight two of his Maiesties Iustices of the peace for the County of Lincolne and Samuel Fleming Doctor of Diuinitie one of his Maiesties Iustices of the peace for the County of Leicester aforesaid SHE saith that there are foure colours of Planets Blacke Yellow Greene and Blew and that Blacke is alwaies death and that shee sawe the Blew Plannet strike Thomas Fairebarne the eldest sonne vnto William Fairebarne of Bottesford aforesaid by

of Diuinitie two of his Maiesties Iustices of the Peace of the said County of Leicester SHe saith that she tould one Cookes wife of Stathorne in the said County Labourer that Iohn Patchett might haue had his Child aliue if he would haue sought forth for it in time and if it were not death stricken in her wayes and that Patchets wife had an euill thing within her which should make an end of her and that she knew by her Girdle She saith further that Gamaliel Greete of Waltham in the said County Shepheard had a Spirit like a white Mouse put into him in his swearing and that if hee did looke vpon any thing with an intent to hurt it should be hurt and that hee had a marke on his left arme which was cut away and that her own spirit did tell her all this before it went from her Further she saith that Ioane Flower Margaret Flower and shee did meet about a weeke before Ioane Flowers apprehension in Blackborrow-hill and went from thence home to the said Ioan Flowers house and there she saw two spirits one like a Rat and the other like an Owle and one of them did sucke vnder her right eare as shee thought and the said Ioan told her that her spirits did say that shee should neyther be hanged nor burnt Further she saith that the said Ioan Flower did take vp some earth and spet vpon it and did worke it with her finger and put it vp into her purse and said though shee could not hurt the Lord himselfe yet shee had sped his Sonne which is dead H. Hastings Samuel Fleming The Examination of Ellen Greene of Stathorne in the County of Leicester taken the 17. of March 1618. by Sir Henry Hastings K t and Samuel Fleming D. of Diuinitie two of his Maiesties Iustices of the Peace of his said County SHee saith that one Ioan Willimot of Goadby came about sixe yeares since to her in the Wowlds and perswaded this Examinate to forsake God and betake her to the diuel and she would giue her two spirits to which shee gaue her consent and thereupon the said Ioan Willimot called two spirits one in the likenesse of a Kitlin and the other of a Moldiwarp the first the said Willimot called pusse the other hiffe hiffe and they presently came to her she departing left them with this Examinate and they leapt on her shoulder and the kitlin suckt vnder her right eare on her neck the Moldiwarp on the left side in the like place After they had suckt her shee sent the Kitlin to a Baker of that Towne whose name shee remembers not who had called her Witch stricken her and bad her said spirit goe and bewitch him to death the Moldiwarpe shee then bad go to Anne Dawse of the same towne and bewitch her to death because she had called this examinate witch whore jade c. and within one fortnight after they both dyed And further this Examinate saith that she sent both her spirits to Stonesby to one Willison a husbandman Robert Williman a husbandmans sonne and bad the Kitlin goe to Willison and bewitch him to death and the Moldywarp to the other and bewitch him to death which they did and within tenne dayes they dyed These foure were bewitched while this Examinate dwelt at Waltham aforesaid About three yeares since this Examinate remoued thence to Stathorne where she now dwelt vpon a difference betweene the said Willimot and the wife of Iohn Patchet of the said Stathorne Yeoman shee the said Willimot called her this Examinate to goe and touch the said Iohn Patchets Wife and her Childe which shee did touching the said Iohn Patchets wife in her bed and the childe in the Grace-wifes armes and then sent her said spirits to bewitch them to death which they did and so the woman lay languishing by the space of a moneth and more for then shee dyed the childe dyed the next day after she touched it And shee further saith that the said Ioane Willimot had a spirit sucking on her vnder the left flanke in the likenesse of a little white Dogge which this Examinate saith that she saw the same sucking in Barley-haruest last being then at the house of the said Ioan Willimot And for her selfe this Examinate further saith that shee gaue her soule to the Diuell to haue these spirits at her command for a confirmation whereof she suffered them to suck her alwayes as aforesaid about the change and full of the Moone H. Hastings Samuel Fleming The Examination of Phillip Flower Sister of Margaret Flower and Daughters of Ioane Flower before S r William Pelham and Mr. Butler Iustices of the Peace Febr. 4. 1618. Which was brought in at the Assizes as euidence against her Sister Margaret SHe saith that her mother and her sister maliced the Earle of Rutland his Countesse and their Children because her Sister Margaret was put out of the Ladies seruice of Laundry and exempted from other seruices about the house wherevpon her said sister by the commandement of her mother brought from the Castle the right hand gloue of the Lord Henry Rosse which she deliuered to her Mother who presently rubd it on the backe of her Spirit Rutterkin and then put it into hot boyling water afterward shee pricked it often and buried it in the yard wishing the Lord Rosse might neuer thriue and so her Sister Margaret continued with her mother where shee often saw the cat Rutterkin leape on her shoulder and sucke her necke Shee further confessed that shee heard her mother often curse the Earle and his Lady and therevpon would boyle feathers and blood together vsing many Diuellish speeches and strange gestures The Examination of Margaret Flower Sister of Phillip Flower c. about the 22. of Ianuary 1618. SHe saith and confesseth that about foure or fiue yeare since her Mother sent her for the right hand gloue of Henry Lord Rosse afterward that her mother bade her goe againe into the Castle of Beauer and bring downe the gloue or some other thing of Henry Lord Rosse and shee askt what to doe Her Mother replyed to hurt my Lord Rosse wherevpon she brought downe a gloue and deliuered the same to her Mother who stroked Rutterkin her Cat with it after it was dipt in hot water and so prickt it often after which Henry Lord Rosse fell sicke within a weeke and was much tormented with the same She further saith that finding a gloue about two or three yeares since of Francis Lord Rosse on a dung-hill she deliuered it to her mother who put it into hot water and after tooke it out and rubd it on Rutterkin the Cat and bad him goe vpwards and after her mother buried it in the yard and said a mischiefe light on him but he will mend againe Shee further saith that her Mother and shee and her Sister agreed together to bewitch the Earle and his Lady that they might haue no more children and being